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1926 November, Macy, John Albert, “Equality of Woman with Man: A Myth”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name)‎[1], pages 705-706:

And I am also proposing the development of a counter corrective movement to be called “Masculism”—lady, I thank thee for that word!—a Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Men. This new movement or cult will seek to restrain the wild women from losing themselves in the woods and perhaps to help them along some desirable road.

As Brittan (1989:4) has succinctly put it, "the ideology that justifies and naturalizes male domination" is "masculism." And masculism is already antisocial because masculism as an ideology universalizes "man" as the "maker" of history.

Masculism, the form of sexism practiced in our culture, has many facets, and we shall explore them in Chapter 2. Here we need only say that masculism is in part the mistaking of male perspectives, beliefs, attitudes, standards, values, and perceptions for all human perceptions.

1997 June 25, Persram, Nalini, “In my father's house are many mansions”, in Black British Feminism: A Reader‎[4], ISBN9780415152884, OL7484411M, page 213:

It often takes a crisis of some sort to initiate the difficult but empowering feminist process of renegotiating the masculisms that dominate the discourses of origin, authenticity and belonging in a way that transforms margins into frontiers, lack into (ad)vantage.

1994, Sheila Ruth, Take Back the Light: A Feminist Reclamation of Spirituality and ReligionISBN0822630311, pages 169 and 180:

In patriarchy, clearly identifiable themes and practices have sent them awry: (1) The first, and most all encompassing, is masculism, which is the adoration of a perverse masculinity represented in the person of Mars, the ancient god of war. A masculist orientation contains the worship of power, an acceptance of violence, an obsession with death, and an inclination toward the morbid and negative aspects of life.

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Masculism is the celebration of the masculine. Patriarchy is its political expression.

Thus, mainstream feminism should really be called "masculism," because it glorifies everything that pertains to men and seeks to appropriate it for women. A good example of this mindless masculism is the concept of feminine cigarettes. […] Claiming the right to smoke because men have it is like asserting the right to be a kamikaze pilot as an equal job opportunity.

Unfortunately, masculism also has a tendency to adopt the less constructive traits and tactics of modern feminism, including polarizing rhetoric, exaggerated claims of victimization as the basis of political demands, and the tailoring of facts to fit ideology.

Defining ‘masculism’ is made difficult by the fact that the term has been used by very few people, and by hardly any philosophers. In its most general meaning, the word ‘feminism’ refers to promotion of the interests or rights of women, and a reasonable definition of ‘masculism’ would have it refer to promoting the interests or rights of men. […] A more precise definition of both would be something on this order: ‘the belief that women/men have been systematically discriminated against, and that discrimination should be eliminated’.

More recently, however, “masculism” has arisen as an attempt to understand men’s experiences in a masculinist society. Masculism examines oppression from the standpoint of men, the vast majority of whom do not fit the mould of the masculinist paradigm.

There are two quite different forces lumped together in the category of "patriarchy." One is that tradition proper, and the other is "masculism" (or at least I call it that), and what feminism sees as patriarchy is what's left over of the tradition after masculism has defaced it by trying to make it "masculine," […] The difference between Orthodoxy and feminism is this. Orthodoxy has to a very large measure preserved the tradition. When it objects to masculism, it is objecting to an intrusion that affects something it is keeping. It is a guard trying to protect […]